Creating links to the latest Domino.Doc version

Creating links to the latest Domino.Doc version

Tip submitted by
David Hatfield

Level: Beginner
Works with: Domino.Doc
Updated: 02-Jan-2003

It's common to create links to existing Domino.Doc documents in new documents and emails. Because new revisions of a Domino.Doc document may be created after you create the initial link, it's more useful to create a bookmark to the document and then create a link to the bookmark. The bookmark will always remain current despite revisions to the document. When someone clicks the link to a bookmark, it will open the latest revision of the source document.

In this tip, we provide you with two methods of creating a link to the bookmark: using a Notes doclink or a URL link. With both methods, you must first create the bookmark to the Domino.Doc document.

Creating the bookmark
Before you can create a Notes doclink or a URL link, you must first create the bookmark to the appropriate document. Follow these steps.

In the Notes client, open the Document Profile of the desired Domino.Doc document.
Select Actions - Copy Bookmark to Binder.
Select the desired binder (many file cabinets have a Bookmarks binder to store bookmarks separately from the source documents), and then click OK.

The bookmark is now stored in the binder as a document.

Creating a Notes doclink to the bookmark
After you create the bookmark, you can either create a Notes doclink to the bookmark or create a URL to the bookmark. If you want to create a URL to the bookmark, skip to the next section "Creating a URL to the bookmark." If you want to create a Notes doclink, follow these steps.

In the Notes client, open the file cabinet containing the source and bookmark documents.
Select the Documents by Title view.
Right-click on the bookmark document, and select Copy As Link from the menu.
Paste this link into the desired document or email.

Now when users click the doclink, they always open the latest version of the Domino.Doc document.

Creating a URL to the bookmark
You can create a URL, instead of Notes doclink, to the bookmark. This way users can access the Domino.Doc document via a Web browser, instead of the Notes client.

Open the file cabinet containing the source and bookmark documents.
Select the Documents by Title view.
Right-click on the bookmark document, and select Document Properties from the menu.
Select the Advanced tab.
Record the 32-character DocUnid value in the first 2 lines, as shown below.

Note: Ignore the first two characters at the beginning of each line as well as the colons in the middle of each line. In the example, the DocUnid for this document is A8F3EDA12AD9A1E185256C930074D70A.
Append this DocUnid value to the end of the following URL:

http://server host name/DOCDBID/(InternalAdmin)/Frameset?OpenDocument&docUNID=

where server host name is the name of the server on which the file cabinet that stores the document resides and DOCDBIDis the document database identifier.
To obtain the document database identifier (DOCDBID), do one of the following:

You can now copy and paste this newly constructed URL into the desired document or email.

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